OVERLORD'S BLOG

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In 1959 the CIA decided that it needed a new means of spying on its opponents. The only practical answer at the time was a plane. Thus, the ...

On the 2nd of March 1944, late in the evening, about 2200 in a snowstorm, a small German convoy consisting of the merchants Thor, Hermann Fr...

On the afternoon of the 9th February 1944 a flight of US Spitfires from 4th Fighter Squadron were performing a sweep off the coast of southe...

A few weeks ago, my friend Adam Pawley told me a story about a German First World War raider, that upon closer inspection showed promise as ...

I write the article a week in advance, and last week it all went wrong. At some point previously I'd found a link to a website that gave...

Born on the 26th of April 1908 John Clifford Lord was one of larger than life types that populated the armed forces during, and after the S...

On the 14th of May 1940 Anthony Eden put-forth a call for volunteers to help defend the UK. These were called the LDV and would later be ren...

Today we have a story that is a bit obfuscated by time, and lots of populist re-telling of the story, so the exact details may not be right,...

I've posted this weeks article over on Facebook. The reason is we're discussing something that shouldn't really be posted on thi...